The New Colossus Immigration

Illegal immigration to the U.S. is out of control. Almost 20% of the world’s international migrants flock to a nation that consists of less than 5% of the world’s population. This is a huge threat to our security. Some people believe the threat is miniscule, because illegal immigrants commit crime at the same or a lower rate than native-born Americans, and it is unfair to deny a large group of people citizenship because of the crimes of a few. Law

These words by Emma Lazarus, inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty, strike a chord of yearning for freedom in the minds of suffering yet hopeful people, and invoke a picture of the United States meeting the immigrant with open arms. The United States is often called a nation of immigrants, and yet US history reveals many examples of anti-immigrant sentiment, actions, and legal restrictions. Which is true --that America is a nation of immigrants or that it is a nation that does not support immigration?

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door,” declared fellow immigrant and writer Emma Lazarus in her famous sonnet, The New Colossus. Lazarus uses one of America’s mascots, the Statue of Liberty, to embody America as a beacon of lights that guide immigrants. Since the early 19th century, immigrants have looked towards America as a the mythical land where they could seek greater opportunities. Waves of immigrants are regularly abandoning their homeland to start anew elsewhere in order to work for more than they could achieve back home. Apropos the new green card policy passed in Congress, in the essay Two Ways to Belong in America, author and UC Berkeley Professor Bharati Mukherjee goes in depth about her and her sister, Mira Mukherjee’s sacrifices as immigrants in America. Mukherjee compares and contrasts her immigrant experience to her sister’s using varied sentence lengths, figurative language, and contrasting diction to argue that immigrants should not be stripped of their government benefits because of all that they have sacrificed for America.

As time goes on, more and more immigrants venture to live in the United States. Throughout all of this, as a nation, we maintain a generally warm and welcoming stance towards immigrants. Unfortunately, lawful entry has become a massive multifaceted issue, resulting in a massive influx of illegal immigrants. Coerced by politics, the government allows illegal immigrants to enter, resulting in severe damage to the United States economy. Eventually, as the United States government fails to properly implement existing laws, illegal immigration is accelerated, creating more issues in the structure of the government that loom over the health of the country and its citizens.

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”. This poem entitled The New Colossus, written by Emma Lazarus. The poem was engraved at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. The immigrants who came to eastern of America would eventually arrived at New York harbor. They would passed through the Statue of Liberty and seen the poem below it. They began their new life with this poem. In recent years, some policies have passed to limit the immigrants. Discrimination is more severe. The new immigrants especially who are not white faced unfair treatments. Some just two or three generations

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free, it’s the retched refuse of your teaming shore. Send these the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door" (Lazarus, 1883). The inscription written on the pedestal of the statue of liberty is a symbol of freedom and a beacon of hope for those who desire a chance at a better life full of opportunities. Although the United States has long been characterized as a sanctuary for the impoverished and the oppressed, anti-immigrant sentiment—known as nativism—permeates throughout American history. Immigration patterns to the United States reflect economic, political and social conditions worldwide; we have an open door policy during times of prosperity, but we tend to slam the doors shut when times get tough.

In the acclaimed poem "The New Colossus" American artist Emma Lazarus composes, "Give us your poor, your tired, your clustered masses longing to inhale free ". Engraved inside of within a symbol of flexibility, the Statue of Liberty, this announcement has come to characterize the nation of the United States of America. Indeed, even before its presentation of autonomy in 1776, the United States was a safe house for those looking for a superior life. Running to this nation by the thousands, settlers over a significant time span have traveled to the place where there is the free trying to get a way of life based upon the United States' idea of "life, freedom, and the quest for bliss." With more individuals entering the nation, the United States

Illegal immigration was an issue in the past and is a pressing problem in the present. The U.S. Government has been trying to find a resolution to this issue for years. The United States approved the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which allowed the American Government to punish American companies that consciously employed illegal immigrants (Nadadur 1037-1052). The United States’ Government Immigration Reform and Control Act has been unsuccessful in controlling illegal immigration. It is estimated that illegal immigration into the U.S. has a yearly interval of three hundred fifty thousand people (Rousmaniere 24-25). It is apparent that the 1986 act was not able to keep a handle on illegal immigration. Illegal immigration

Since America is mostly considered as a place for better opportunities, people are going to America for studies or for jobs. In other words, today’s immigrants prefer to come to the United States because it has freedom of speech and religion. Also, many people see America as the land of opportunities, the land that makes peoples’ dreams come true. The quote appears on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe

Immigration has been a critical issue that divides the country for many years. However, the United States of America is a country built by immigrants for immigrants, from the beginning until now. The statue of liberty is facing the rest of the world, holding the torch of freedom, which has the flame of hope that promises a new bright future to all immigrants that come to the nation, regardless of neither their country of origin nor the color of their skin. The United States of America is a country that welcomes immigration and this is one of the reasons why this country is a great country.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” are a few of Emma Lazarus’ words that are forever inscribed on one of the nation’s most beloved monuments in New York City, the Statue of Liberty (The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus). This poem defines the nation for its longstanding relationship with refugees, yet, the issue has created controversy throughout the years, specifically during the recent presidential election. Many believe immigrants and refugees have no right to live in the United States, while others yield completely different, polarized opinions. Personally, I believe that the United States should not enforce extreme restrictions on immigrants who desire freedom in the form of fleeing to this country. Those who oppose this claim believe immigrants will debilitate the economy, enter the country illegally, and potentially harm Americans. However, these individuals do not take into account how America was built in the first place, how to effectively strengthen the nation’s borders, and the factual data that proves the majority of immigrants do not threaten the safety of Americans.

In The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus writes about the Statue of Liberty, painting it out as the beacon for hope, prosperity, and freedom to those wishing to start anew. If they are the “wretched refuse” or the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, she invites them to come to the United States, where from the “Mother of Exiles” “Glows [a] world-wide welcome”. Sadly, many people were anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner, believing that most immigrants will only bring harm to the economy, will only be a detriment to the improvement of the nation, and will only have a negative impact on the nation’s social/moral standings.

Through all of the events in history that happened to the United States, the issue lurking around for over 250 years and counting, which began ages ago, is immigration. In the U.S daily, there are approximately 70,000 foreigners that travel here from various countries from different parts of the world. Within the 70,000 travelers, over 60,000 of them are tourists, businessmen, and students. In the United States currently, with every 2,000 legal immigrants, there are 5,000 illegal immigrants. Since the 1990’s, illegal immigrants have been tremendously outnumbering legal immigrants by millions. Because of this ruckus with illegal immigrants, U.S lawmakers have made many attempts to restructure the immigration laws so that we can actually

In America, the complex problem of illegal immigration is growing very rapidly. Until recently, illegal immigration has been seemingly overlooked by many in this country. Over the past decade, immigration law enforcement has become more and more relaxed. Illegal immigrants have been pouring into this country undocumented, and the flow completely uncontrolled. While legal immigration can be very good, the open flow of illegal immigrants into the United States of America is greatly detrimental to the sovereignty and independence of this nation.

At first, the governments experiencing cases of illegal immigration need to enforce their laws of immigration and to crack down on those employers that hire illegal aliens. The governments should decide to make it a felony act for employing people without undergoing the proper channels of immigration and checking the applicant’s background (Gaines & Kappeler, 2011). The only way of making illegal immigrants leave the countries under which they reside illegally is by making life difficult for them to keep on leaving there. For example, the governments should opt to ignore granting driver’s licenses, public schooling opportunities, food stamps and permanent employment to the people that reside in the states illegally. Choosing this option is essential because it is very hard to track and trace